Assessment Practices Quotes

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.